Mahmud Shah of Malacca
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Mahmud Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah was Sultan of Malacca from 1488 to 1511, and again as pretender to the throne from 1513 to 1528. He was son of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah. As a m
Mahmud Shah of Malacca
Capture of Malacca (1511)
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The governor of Portuguese India Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the city of Malacca in 1511.
Mahmud Shah of Malacca
…as pretender to the throne from 1513 to 1528. He was son of Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah. As a monarch, he was known to be a ruthless ruler. After the Capture of Malacca and the downfall of the century-long sultanate, he left for Bintan and became a leader of a small confederacy which led attacks against Portuguese-occupied…
Portuguese watercolour of Malayan people of Malacca, c. 1540, featured in the Códice Casanatense
An illustration of a Malay couple, from Reise nach Batavia, between 1669 and 1682
Diogo Lopes de Sequeira.
16th-century Portuguese carrack.